Commander Field Army 3* • 16 Air Assault Brigade, Colchester o 216 (Air Assault) Signal Squadron, Colchester (linked with 1st Signal Brigade 1) ▪ Alpha Troop ▪ Bravo Troop ▪ Charlie Troop (2 and 3 page 4) ▪ MT/LAD Troop ▪ Support Troop o Pathfinder Platoon (around 45 men, platoons of 4-6, reece 2 x Jackal, 6 men45) o 226 Signal Squadron, Cawdor Barracks (exercised with 16 Air Assault Brigade6 page 30-31 7) o 613 and 616 Tactical Air Control Parties (TACP), RAF Regiment - 4-man teams of Forward Air Controllers (FAC) (2) and Signallers (2) – unsure if still in ORBAT o 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, Colchester (Air Assault/Parachute Infantry Regiment) ▪ A (Command) Company ▪ Battalion Headquarters (BHQ) ▪ Intelligence Section ▪ Training Wing ▪ Patrols Platoon8 ▪ Signals Platoon ▪ Assault Engineer (AE) Section ▪ Provost Staff (Military Police) ▪ Sniper Platoon (8 x 2-man teams using L115a3 sniper rifles 1 https://royalsignals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20170921-Master-of-Signals-Presentation.pdf 2 http://www.216parasigs.org.uk/newsletters/documents/20130417-ASANewsletter2013-R.pdf 3 http://www.216parasigs.org.uk/newsletters/documents/ASA_Newsletter2014.pdf 4 http://bootcampmilitaryfitnessinstitute.com/elite-special-forces/uk-elite-special-forces/the-pathfinder-platoon/ 5 https://www.eliteukforces.info/parachute-regiment/pathfinder-platoon/ 6 https://royalsignals.org/FileTransfer/E-Wire/PDF/15-16/The-Wire-Oct-15.pdf 7 https://twitter.com/BritishArmy/status/1000308135842762752 8 http://www.eliteukforces.info/parachute-regiment/patrols-platoon 1 ▪ Headquarters Company (Provides logistic, medical and admin support to BHQ, structure could have changed) ▪ Quartermasters ▪ Motor Transport Platoon ▪ Regimental Administration Office ▪ Regiment Aid Post ▪ Catering Platoon ▪ B Company (Rifle Company) ▪ C (Bruneval) Company (Rifle Company9) ▪ D Company (Rifle Company) ▪ Support Company (X Company???10 Support Coy provides both direct and indirect fire support to the Rifle Companies and is comprised of an HQ element and several platoons) ▪ Machine Gun Platoon ▪ Mortar Platoon ▪ Anti-Tank Platoon o 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, Colchester (Air Assault/Parachute Infantry Regiment) ▪ D (ISTAR) Company ▪ Battalion Headquarters (BHQ) ▪ Intelligence Section ▪ Training Wing ▪ Patrols Platoon11 ▪ Signals Platoon ▪ Assault Engineer (AE) Section ▪ Provost Staff (Military Police) ▪ Sniper Platoon (8 x 2-man teams using L115a3 sniper rifles ▪ Headquarters Company (Provides logistic, medical and admin support to BHQ, structure could have changed) ▪ Quartermasters 9 see https://www.facebook.com/16AirAssaultBrigade/posts/888625467883541 10 See https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152253574728622&set=a.380095203621.159770.286253458621 &type=1&theater 11 http://www.eliteukforces.info/parachute-regiment/patrols-platoon/ 2 ▪ Motor Transport Platoon ▪ Regimental Administration Office ▪ Regiment Aid Post ▪ Catering Platoon ▪ A Company (Rifle Company)12 ▪ 1 Platoon ▪ 2 Platoon ▪ 3 Platoon ▪ B Company (Rifle Company)13 ▪ 1 x Platoon labelled Guards Parachute Platoon14 ▪ C Company (Rifle Company) ▪ Support Company (Support Coy provides both direct and indirect fire support to the Rifle Companies and is comprised of an HQ element and several platoons) ▪ Machine Gun Platoon (direct fire support from GPMGs and HMGs) ▪ Mortar Platoon 15 ▪ Anti-Tank Platoon o 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment, Pudsey (Army Reserve) (Air Assault/Parachute Infantry Regiment) (1 x Bn HQ and HQ Company, 3 x Rifle Air Assault Companies. Under Army 2020 Refine, will see personnel increase by 128) ▪ Battalion HQ and HQ Company, Pudsey ▪ A Company, Glasgow and Edinburgh ▪ B Company, White City ▪ C Company, Pudsey, Hebburn and St Helens ▪ D Company, Nottingham and Rugby16171819 12 http://forces.tv/87495148 13 http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/82nd-airborne-and-3-para-lead-the-way-for-interoperability/ 14 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.737581242937112.1073741841.214984825196759&type=3 15 https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2018/09/british-paratroopers-take-on-public-order-training- in-bosnia/ 16 http://www.nottinghampost.com/PARAS/story-21157251-detail/story.html 17 https://www.facebook.com/PARA/posts/979859775379135 18 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=398078693731278&id=253207261551756 19 http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/defence-committee/sdsr- 2015-and-the-army/written/45999.html 3 ▪ Royal Gurkha Rifles Battalion, Shorncliffe (rotates to Brunei and paired under 16 Air Assault Brigade) (Light Infantry) ▪ HQ Company ▪ A Company ▪ B (Sair Bair) Company ▪ C Company20 ▪ Support Company o 7th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, Colchester (105mm, V Battery disbanded May 2013.2122 I Battery to be HQ Battery.23 Two batteries (F (Sphinx) Parachute Battery and G Parachute Battery (Mercer's Troop) each with 6 x 105mm Light Guns, total of twelve. Re-rolling of Parachute Battery (Bull's Troop) from a gun battery to a headquarters battery.24) ▪ I Parachute Battery (Bull's Troop) (HQ Battery) ▪ (F (Sphinx) Parachute Battery 105 mm25 ▪ G Parachute Battery (Mercer's Troop) 105 mm ▪ REME Light Aid Detachment o A Battery (1st City of London) Honourable Artillery Company (L118 battery, paired with 7RHA, see unit entry) o 53 (Louisburg) Air Assault Battery (provides STA support to 16 AA or kept at Very High Readiness (VHR)) o 12 (Minden) Battery Lightweight Missile Launcher (LML) Battery kept at VHR, possibly AD battery for 16 AA (2 Troops of 6 missiles each) (LM26 27 6 fire units, 36 soldiers) o 21 (Gibraltar 1779-83) Air Assault Battery (VHR UAS battery, works with 16 AA, status unknown after 2021) o 23 Parachute Engineer Regiment (new name for 23 Engineer Regiment (Air Assault)), Woodbridge, Reprovision to be confirmed, 2027 20 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153830648595615.1073742063.318319690614&type=1 21 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152862595705615.1073741870.318319690614&type=1 22 https://twitter.com/CharlotteBFBS/status/362928477252489216 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhtw3Hd3CDc 24 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153086304770615.1073741932.318319690614&type=1 25 https://twitter.com/16AirAssltBde/status/702454006740819968 26 http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110801190835/http://army.mod.uk/artillery/units/12_regt_ra/2186 2.aspx?rating=1 27 http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20050720205042/http:/www.army.mod.uk/5regtra/soldiers_story.htm 4 ▪ 12 Parachute Headquarters and Support Squadron, Woodbridge (revived 28) ▪ Catering Troop, 23 Parachute Engineer29 ▪ 9 Parachute Squadron (Engineers), Woodbridge ▪ 51 Parachute Squadron (Engineers), Woodbridge ▪ 23 REME Workshop ▪ 299 Squadron, Army Reserve o 13 (Air Assault) Support Regiment, The Royal Logistics Corps, Colchester ▪ 24 Headquarters Squadron, Colchester30 ▪ 47 Air Despatch Squadron, RAF Brize Norton3132(formerly 29 Regiment RLC, also helps in air drops33) ▪ 63 Air Assault Support Squadron, Colchester34 ▪ 65 Logistics Support Squadron, Colchester (new squadron, confirmed in FOIA) ▪ 82 Air Assault Task Force Squadron, Colchester (FOIA) o 16 Medical Regiment, Colchester (hybrid unit) ▪ 19 Medical Squadron, Colchester35 ▪ 23 Air Manoeuvre Squadron, Colchester36 ▪ 127 Medical Squadron, Colchester (FOIA) ▪ 81 Air Assault Medical Support Squadron, Colchester37 ▪ 144 Parachute Medical Squadron (Volunteers), Hornsey, Glasgow, Cardiff and Nottingham (Army Reserve) o 156th Military Provost Staff Unit, Colchester ▪ A Platoon 38 Reaction Force • 3rd (United Kingdom) Division, Bulford 2* deployable division 28 https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2018/07/airborne-engineer-squadron-returns-to-the-ranks/ 29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCeVrMAGJ10&feature=em-uploademail 30 http://www.paradata.org.uk/units/13-air-assault-support-regiment-rlc 31 http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafbrizenorton/newsweather/index.cfm?storyid=EFB6177E-5056-A318- A82B30B6277A8E49 32 http://www.raf.mod.uk/RAFbrizenorton/newsweather/index.cfm?storyid=EFB6177E-5056-A318- A82B30B6277A8E49 33 https://www.facebook.com/RHQTheRoyalLogisticCorps/posts/622981441132769 34 http://www.paradata.org.uk/units/13-air-assault-support-regiment-rlc ) 35 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/airborne-medics-put-through-their-paces 36 http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/fraser-pearson/6b/225/a6b 37 https://www.linkedin.com/pub/fraser-pearson/6b/225/a6b 38 https://twitter.com/4RegtRMP/status/704350750835662850 5 o 11th Signal and Headquarters West Midlands Brigade, Donnington, to move to most probably Stafford, shifted from 6th Division to 3rd Division39 ▪ Central Volunteer Headquarters Royal Signals (CVHQ) (Army Reserve) ▪ 7 Signal Group, to move to most probably Bulford, 2020, Close Support ▪ 1st Signal Regiment, Stafford (formerly 1 UK Armoured Division HQ and Signal Regiment40, to support 20 AI Brigade4142) ▪ HQ Squadron ▪ 200 Signal Squadron, Stafford ▪ 211 Signal Squadron, Stafford? (to gain Falcon) ▪ Main Troop ▪ TAC Troop ▪ Spec Task Troop ▪ 212 Signal Squadron, Stafford? (Merger of 212 and 201 Squadrons, new name unclear) ▪ Eagle Troop (201) ▪ Hawk Troop (201) ▪ Arezzo Troop (212) ▪ Monte Cassino Troop (212) ▪ Rimini Troop (212) ▪ 246 Signal Squadron43 ▪ Support Squadron ▪ 21st Signal Regiment, Colerne, Reprovision to be confirmed 2031 (re-roles from Air Support Signal Regiment to support 1st Strike Brigade under Army 2020 Refine44, 204 Signal Squadron disbanded.45) 39 https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/formations-divisions-brigades/3rd-united-kingdom-division/